Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:04 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.odbServer.commandSend

on commandSend (command, server=user.odbServer.prefs.serverAddress) {
	local (port = odbServer.daemon.port);
	local (stream = netEvents.openStream (server, port));
	local (endcommand = "endodbservercommand");
	if stream == 0 {
		return ("")};
	loop {
		local (chunksize = 5 * 1024);
		if sizeof (command) <= chunksize {
			netEvents.writeStream (stream, command);
			break};
		netEvents.writeStream (stream, string.mid (command, 1, chunksize));
		command = string.delete (command, 1, chunksize)};
	netEvents.writeStream (stream, endcommand);
	<<netEvents.writeStream (stream, command)
	local (s = "");
	local (timeout = clock.ticks () + (60 * user.odbServer.prefs.timeoutSecs));
	loop {
		local (bytespending);
		case netEvents.statusStream (stream, @bytespending) {
			"CLOSING";
			"CLOSED";
			"INACTIVE" {
				break};
			"DATA" {
				s = s + netEvents.readStream (stream, bytespending)}};
		if clock.ticks () > timeout {
			s = "";
			break}};
	netEvents.closeStream (stream);
	return (s)}

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.